Notices by Aras Pranckevičius (aras@mastodon.gamedev.place), page 2

Laptop updated from MBP M1 Max to M4 Max. Quick impression that CPU-based workloads I use (compilation, CPU heavy blender stuff) are about 2x faster, nice. Minor downside: whereas on M1 getting the fans to be audible was very rare, on M4 with all CPU cores up the fans do spin up sooner. Not as bad as Intel-based MBPs used to be, but still much more audible than M1.

@sinbad mixed results, I think. If the C suite had more clue, they’d be fewer layoffs yes. But also, there would not have been crazy over-hiring pre-2021-or-so. Even with all the drastic layoffs, the industry is still larger than in 2018.

This little tweet in 2022 Jan was the start of my #blender contribution involvement ;) it is all downhill from there!

Me, trying acrylic paint for the first time at 40-something years old: is that the midlife crisis they’ve been warning about?

@sinbad this one can!

Low resolution mood

@nh @sinbad @neilhenning “carbon based life forms!”, but that would exclude most of future robot uprising people tho

Visual illustration of #blender Thomas Dinges telling developers to update their release notes. Again. #bcon24

This comment by @tonroosendaal has been in #blender codebase for 17 years: "Waste of cpu cycles... but the imbuf API has no other way to scale fast (ton)"

Until today; today I remove it :)

@c0de517e Maya has, like, a ton of custom tooling built upon it over millions of years, right? That's quite a moat.

Was trying to figure out why laptop of mother-in-law was very slow. It is 7 years old, 4GB RAM, HDD, so yeah. But it used to be not slow! Constant updates of both Windows and Chrome make everything sluggish. Even bringing up task manager takes half a minute. *One* app there that is still snappy? Picasa. Because it was discontinued before the laptop was made, so it had *zero* updates that would make it slower.

This is one of "all the apps automagically update themselves" reality downsides: it used to be that software you have stays the same, on the same computer. Now, computer stays the same, but software (slowly but surely) gets slower. Needs more memory, no longer acceptably works on non-SSD, etc. etc.

Petition to add "__FUNCION__" macro to C that would do the same as "__FUNCTION__". I keep on mistyping it at least once a week.

So everyone is still doomscrolling, eh? Isn't it time to move onto quakescrolling at this point? Or is that full 3D scrolling is too confusing to people, so they'd rather keep on scrolling in 2.5D.

Cohost shutting down (https://cohost.org/staff/post/7611443-cohost-to-shut-down) is sad but not surprising. Unfortunately.

People saying "I wish media was not like today! I'd gladly pay $N for a nice no-nonsense / no-ads social platform". And then they don't.

And no mastodon/"fediverse" is not a sustainable and scalable answer. You still need someone to run the servers (costs $$$) and do moderation (costs human work and sometimes human misery).

Like, this instance running at all is a combination of Someone paying a $700 bill each.and.every.month, and about 5 moderators looking at reports and user registrations each.and.every.day. *So far* this has been working. Will it keep on working? Who knows! Forever? Probably not :/

My guitar teacher was talking about a whole-tone scale, but I misheard it as "Halton scale". I was: oh cool, a low-discrepancy sampler, but for notes. Now I'm disappointed it is not actually called a Halton scale.

@zeux Not here! My impression is generally that the period “oh our toolchain is ancient and/or strange” was 10-15 years ago. MSVC was stuck in weird state, some consoles had “strange” toolchains too. These days everyone’s either on clang or MSVC (and some on gcc), and all of those keep up with times well.

@grumpygamer

Rhubarb cakes will continue until situation improves cc @ocornut https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@ocornut/112349540484879319